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[laclefdescoeurs]

My Wife’s Lovers, 1891, Carl Kahler

[loppytaffy]

God I hope I am immortalised by my husband for having 40 cats

[mawoftriskaidekathon-deactivate]

Fun facts:

It cost $5,000 in 1888 to have this painting made, which is more than $120,000 in today’s money.

I say 1888 because it took three years for Kahler to complete, reportedly because he spent most of the time studying and sketching each cat to get a feel for their personality.

It was painted for Kate Johnson, the title was her husband’s idea though, proving him the most patient and good-humored husband in the history of crazy cat ladies.

Speaking of cat ladies, the picture actually contains 42 cats. Or more specifically, Mrs. Johnson’s 42 most favorite cats. She had 350 in total.

It sold at auction via Sotheby’s a few days ago for over $800,000 dollars, vastly more than its $200,000-$300,000 estimate.

The buyer is a private collector in California.

Probably someone who really, really likes cats.

I mean, really likes cats.

[commandtower-solring-go-deactiv]

I love that every cat in this picture has a name i dont know. In fact, a name i will never know. Each was loved dearly by someone who knew their names. And now they are immortalised in this painting. Its just so lovely

[tabloidsores]

[newkidsonmycock31]

this is the most powerful being on the planet

[adoenamedbeeb]

science side of tumblr report in and explain this please

[kitkatkarate]

The first laser he "grabed" was being projected from the floor. He has lasers hidden in his gloves so when he grabed the laser, the projection from the floor turned off and his hand lasers turned on in sync. Rinse and repeat for all the other grabs. This is likely well rehursed.

[catbreon-draws]

A hammy paradise! Arwen still needs some toys, but I’d say this is already much better than the dreadfully tiny cage she was brought to me in. She can finally burrow, with bedding nine inches deep. I’m really glad her owner was willing to make changes to improve her pet’s welfare, and that I got to design her a nice new home. 

(I only wish I hadn’t said I’d do it for free, but I wanted to make sure Arwen got out of that other cage… oh well lol)

[transenbyhollis]

FYI, metal wheels can actually be quite dangerous to hamsters! there is a risk of a condition called bumblefoot, where feet get infected. solid plastic wheels are always much better and safer for hamsters!

[catbreon-draws]

Thank you for letting me know. :) As I said to someone else this isn’t actually my hamster and I’ve already spent a lot of money getting this cage put together so buying a new wheel will unfortunately have to wait, but in the meantime I will be making sure the wheel stays clean. The metal wheel was of a lower priority than getting her out of the cage she was in, which was just a smidge over 100 square inches. But I promise the wheel issue is known and will be dealt with as soon as possible! <3

[renkunhiiret]

This is a very nice looking bin cage and would work for mice as well, with some climbing toys added. :)

[1337n00b-deactivated20210119]

The burrowing dam is a fantastic idea and I might have to try that for my hammy. Just wondering, what are the dimensions of the bin you’re using (height as well as floor space?)

[catbreon-draws]

Thanks so much, I’m glad actual hamster owners approve… I always wanted one as a kid, but I ended up with mice and rats instead. ;P The bin is about 34 inches long, 18 wide and 12 high. This is the exact bin I bought:

https://www.target.com/p/sterilite-174-clearview-latch-153-110-qt-storage-tote-clear-with-purple-latch/-/A-13794501

Looking at the reviews, it seems I’m not the only one who used this to make a hamster cage! Now that the cage is all done I think the lid is a bit flimsy. And I would be careful about using this bin if your hamster has a way to get to the top of their cage, as the latch’s hinges are positioned inside the bin and could be chewed open. But otherwise this is a fine bin ^-^

[why-animals-do-the-thing]

I don't know if this quite falls into your range of expertise, but I am going baby sit for a family who has an iguana that free roams around their house. Is this in any way a sustainable or advisable way to keep this animal? I have no doubt that they all love the iguana and have nothing but good intentions, but... it just generally seems like this is at best inadvisable and at worst dangerous for their daughter and the lizard in question.

It depends on how they’re free-roaming, but in general, it’s not good for their health. Iguana are not my area of specialty so I’ll ask @kaijutegu to provide more detail on this, but the basics are that they need specific UV lighting and temperature and can develop health issues if they spend too much time in areas with an incorrect set up. I’ve seen guides for how to set up your house to free-roam an iguana in a way that takes all of those needs into account, but they’re fairly intensive and not something I think a lot of owners would put the work into. 

[uroplatus]

God, what a bad idea. I’m pretty sure @kaijutegu has a post that talks specifically about the dangers of free roaming and how it can lead to poor bone development, deformity, MBD, and so on, so I’ll let her address that more thoroughly than I could, but even with that aside, that is an incredibly dangerous situation for their child. I don’t know how old the kid is, but iguanas can dole out some serious damage if they feel threatened. I’ve never had the misfortune to get a tail whip from a full size iguana, but I have been whacked by juveniles and let me tell you, it HURTS. They can deliver pretty serious bites, too - I’ve seen photos of people who have been bitten by their pet iguanas that needed 20 stitches and now have lifelong scars. This is just a misguided and potentially dangerous arrangement all around.

[kitkatkarate]

That's what I was afraid of. The daughter is about 6 or 7 and the family posts pictures of her and the iguana snuggled up in bed together

[plotsjotsandespressoshots-deact]

Remember in 1993 when Jurassic Park was like…the end all, be all of special effects?

[suicunesrider]

not gonna lie that still looks intimately real

[drtanner-dickery]

I’m still somewhat convinced that someone sold their soul to create the special effects in Jurassic Park because that shit is over 20 years old and it still really, really holds up, better than the stuff in a lot of current movies, even.

Fucking witchcraft, man. 

[fanboyingoverdemigods]

fucking look at this shit though

[mauridianhallow]

Literally see this post flying around with a few different responses added to the bottom each time so I’ll say it for this one myself:

THEY ACTUALLY BUILT A GIANT MASSIVELY DETAILED FUCKING ANIMATRONIC T-REX FOR ALL OF THIS THAT’S WHY THE EFFECTS ARE SO GOOD. CAUSE IT AIN’T CGI. AND IT AIN’T GUY IN A COSTUME. IT’S A BIG FUCKING ROBOT DINOSAUR. AND EVERY PART IS DESIGNED TO MOVE. IT COST LIKE HALF THE BUDGET OF THE FILM.

[mizushimo]

amazing

[shadowthorne]

And they had the film it in small increments, especially in the outdoor scenes, because the rain fall kept soaking into the ‘skin’ of the rex and would slow down and mess up its movements. So they would stop filming and have a crew out there drying off this massive, fake dinosaur, and then they’d start filming again until it was too wet. Repeat until the end of the scene.

[mad-dyspunktional]

They used animatronics and detailed costumes for most if not all of the dinosaurs in the first movie.

The triceratops for instance, was also animatronic.

And the raptors were dudes in suits. I shit you not.

[datneeks]

One of my favorite anecdotes I’ve read on tumblr is how the t-rex robot from Jurassic park would malfunction while it was drying out. How did it malfunction, you might wonder?

Motherfucker randomly started moving.

So apparently if you were on the jp set you would sometimes hear people screaming bloody murder even though they were all well aware that it was a giant animatronic puppet and wouldn’t actually, you know, eat them.

[muck-raker-deactivated20181222]

(link to said post about malfunctioning t-rex)

[alessariel]

Did not know this, had to reblog for awesome movie history insights.

[brainsforbabyjesus]

So, I knew about the animatronics bit but I did not know the raptors were guys in suits and the malfunctioning t-rex sounds terrifying.

And i just googled malfunctioning t-rex and was not disappointed. Apparently in order to put the skin on over the steel frame a guy had to crawl inside the t-rex while it was turned on and glue the skin down. And if somebody turned the t-rex off or the power went out the guy in the t-rex stood a very real chance of getting mangled and killed by the hydraulics.

So of course, the power goes out.

And this guy is still in there gluing the skin down.

Apparently the way to survive getting sheered to death by huge sheets of metal while you’re inside a giant t-rex robot is to curl into a ball and hope for the best.

And this guy hoped for the best and got it.

Some other people on stage pried open the t-rex jaws and glue guy crawled out of its mouth and was totally okay.

[alessariel]

This is getting better and better.

[red-dirt-roads-deactivated20161]

I think they only had like 6 minutes of CGI

[teslasturtle-deactivated2023011]

I’m just waiting for the T-Rex to come to life and leave its stand.

[perspectivemax-deactivated20181]

@spinosaurus-the-fisher is this the kind of content you love?

[myloverhammurabi]

Realism comes at a cost, it seems.

[gorsime]

i mean ok but why has nobody posted this:

[myloverhammurabi]

It’s a three piece raptor suit.

[flamingbluepanda]

Old movies had the best special effects

[skafuller-deactivated20180122]

The thing about this that gets my special effects nerd going is the fact that EVERY single dinosaur was sculpted by artists based on the current existent archeological evidence of the time.

[witwitch-deactivated20160508]

@jurassicparkandrecreation

[senkirowolf]

@shepfax

[prettyarb]

Even better than that, this movie ADVANCED our best understanding of dinosaurs at the time.  They were blowing out a budget bigger than anything Hollywood had ever seen, and along with employing almost the last hurrah of incredible physical FX, they had a bank of those newfangled digital SFX computers.  Nobody’d ever really created convincing dinosaurs in a movie before.  It’d all been stop-motion animation, and even when the models were exquisitely crafted, you could just tell there was something OFF about them.  Spielberg wanted THE BEST DINOSAURS EVER, and he figured on using the cutting edge of digital modeling and animation technology to build them for him.

So they got hold of some of the best paleontologists they could find and said, “We want you guys to take this tech that your labs could pretty much never afford and use it to build us the most realistic, accurate dinosaur models the world has ever seen.”

The paleontologists knew an opportunity when it bit them in the ass.  They plugged in everything they knew about dinosaurs, all the skeletons and their best guesses about soft tissue and all that.  And when they’d created those dinosaur models, they had the computer start moving them as they realistically would with anatomy like that.  One guy took a look at those walking t-rexes and velociraptors (really utahraptors, but whatevs, fam), and he said, “Wait a minute, I’ve seen movement like that before.”

He called up film of a chicken walking.  Everyone in the room said, “Holy shit.”

Prior to 1989, the idea that birds were descended from dinosaurs existed–we knew about archaeopteryx, we knew there was some minor connection there–but the idea that DINOSAURS LIVE IN THE MODERN WORLD AND THEY ARE CALLED BIRDS was not pre-eminent.  Jurassic Park changed our scientific understanding of dinosaurs.

[bastlynn]

That paleontologists’d be Kevin Padian. Who is awesome.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kevin_Padian

[thistherapylife]

This post just gets better and better with time

[kaleighbytheway]

Not dinosaur related sorta, but the glass that gets those perfect circles as the trex stomps closer? Took so many tries to get it to look right, the solution? An acoustic guitar under the glass.

[tinysaurus-rex-deactivated20240]

This is why Jurassic World upsets me so. They wanted to keep the aesthetic of the old movies, but the old movies were all about scientific accuracy for that time.

[glumshoe]

You know you grew up on Steve Irwin when you see a photo of a crocodile and think, “Wow. Just beautiful.”

[oboet]

And you see Stingrays as the devil themselves

[glumshoe]

nah man Steve would have forgiven that stingray and absolved it of its sins

[the-hermits-guidance-blog]

He would have apologized for getting into the stingray’s space and making it afraid. 

[autobotsaboteur-archive-blog]

He actually did! Some of Steve Irwin’s last words were, “it wasn’t his fault. I startled him.”

He actually did forgive the stingray. He knew that he had scared it, and that it was only acting to protect itself.

[zooophagous]

If you put your ear up to a seashell you can hear the sound of mY HEART BREAKING INTO A THOUSAND LITTLE PIECES

[maeaneke]

This is why I get so mad whenever my folks have Animal Planet on lately and it’s all about WHAT ANIMALS ARE GOING TO MURDER YOU IN YOUR FACE? EXOTIC PETS RIP OWNER TO SHREDS! SNAKES! WILL THEY EAT YOU? (YES) Steve Irwin (and at the time at least his contemporary follow-behind Jeff Corwin) ushered in such a pure unbridled LOVE of exotic, ferocious, terrifying animals. He respected the animals so much, he loved them. Yes, crocs would charge and snakes would lunge, but he would respect when the animal deemed its boundaries well crossed and let it go back on its merry reptilian way. This was the Tone for my childhood. My education of wild animals was Steve Irwin talking about how beautiful this deadly crocodile was, how majestic and chill and peaceful coexistence could be. It was Jeff Corwin screaming and yelling at people at the discovery of a snake carcass, killed because of ignorant fear of it. It was harmless, and lost, and scared, and decapitated and he was livid. Why? Why would you do that? It was non-venomous, it didn’t want to be where it was any more than you wanted it to be where it was – why didn’t you call someone to release it? And now it’s just… “Everything is murderous and animals will eat your face and everything is Ruthless Killing Machines” and just. I feel like I’m watching my own father’s work be tainted whenever AP is on. It’s so upsetting.

[pharaoh-doll]

Because education and understanding don’t sell ad time.

Also why so much of Shark Week has become LET’S PISS THIS THING OFF TILL IT TRIES TO BITE US. “GREAT WHITES ARE MINDLESS KILLING MACHINES AND THEY WANT TO EAT YOU PERSONALLY, SUSAN.” is a lot more ‘exciting’ than “These things are gigantic and they feel with their very sharp mouths but they don’t actually mean anything by it they just don’t know what you are (also you taste nasty to them get over yourself.)”

[dennys]

When life gives you lemons, combine their DNA with a prehistoric mosquito that was preserved in amber and create the Tyrannosourest Rex.

[dreams-squared]

It’s been a while since dennys got me to say what the fresh fuck

[why-animals-do-the-thing]

this is a question I am going to ask a vet the next time we are there, but as a preliminary I wanted to ask you: can cats have allergies? my cat (at least 11 years old but we aren't sure) is congested quite often, and I've noticed that it gets worse during human allergy season. he doesn't go outside, but I wondered if it could be a factor.

They definitely can! It’s a good thing to talk to your vet about. 

[kitkatkarate]

I used to have a cat who was allergic to orange food dye! Allergies in cats can be pretty difficult to diagnose, but they definitely exist.

[just-a-humble-garbagecan]

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[weloveshortvideos]

[jazzcochina-deactivated20180807]

OMFG THIS IS ME TALKING TO BABIES

[benepla-deactivated20180521]

im obsessed w this video

[writing-prompt-s]

All the gods of myth and legend are real, but having your prayers answered depends on discovering which god can hear you. You figured out which god is listening to your prayers, but they’re not what you expected.

[wulfgang]

Suzy was dissapointed. Most people her age had discovered their deity so far, and she was starting to think she was godless. She turned the next page of McBayers’ Little Book of Deities, and tried reading their names aloud to see if she’d get a reaction. It had taken her weeks just to get through Chinese spirits and deities, and had finally reached the first page of Egyptian Gods and you.

“Ammit? Amun? Anhur?” Nothing. Her heart slowly sank again. Three more tries, and she’d stop for now.

“Anubis?”

The ground shook. The lights in Suzy’s room flickered and went out. A single flame hovered in the middle of the room, and as it grew to a blaze it changed form. Within the blink of an eye, there was a tall figure standing in Suzy’s room. The body of a man, and the head of a jackal. His eyes shone bright as he peered at her.

WHAT IS IT, SUZY OF THE HOUSE MILLER?

“You’re the deity that answers my prayers?”

INDEED. I, ANUBIS, WHO RULES OVER THE LAND OF THE DEAD, IS HERE TO ANSWER YOUR REQUESTS.

Suzy thought for a moment. “O great and mighty Anubis who rules over the afterlife, can I please have a puppy?”

Anubis seemed taken aback.

IN THE CENTURIES THAT I HAVE BEEN PRAYED TO, THIS IS THE FIRST TIME I HAVE BEEN REQUESTED SOMETHING LIKE THIS. CHILD, HOW OLD ARE YOU?

“I’m eight and a half. My mommy says that if I can take care of a puppy, I can keep it.”

ARE YOU CERTAIN YOU DO NOT WISH FOR ME TO BRING PLAGUES UPON YOUR ENEMIES OR WEIGH A SOUL FOR YOU?

Suzy shook her head. “I want a puppy.”

CHILD, IN TRUTH THIS WISH I CANNOT GRANT. MY JOB HAS BEEN TO BRING PEACE AND LEAD SOULS INTO THE AFTERLIFE, NOTHING MORE. IF I WERE TO CREATE A HOUND FOR YOU, IT WOULD BE FORMED OF BONE AND SOUL ALONE.

Suzy thought for a second. She would have liked to have a nice fluffy puppy, but then she remembered how Aunt Marge’s Sphinx cat was still nice, even without fur.

“No fur is fine, as long as they don’t bite and make a mess.”

Anubis nodded, and raised a hand. Underneath his palm an intricate symbol appeared on the floor. It glowed bright, and the floorboards burst apart. Up sprang a massive skeletal dog, bigger than suzy herself. Its eye sockets held blue flame, and its jaw hang partly open in a perpetual grin. It slowly walked over to Suzy and nuzzled her.

“What does it eat?”

IT WILL NOT NEED SUSTENANCE, AND WANTS NOTHING MORE THAN TO SERVE ITS NEW MASTER. I HOPE THIS WILL SUFFICE.”

“I love it. Thank you, Anubis.”

Anubis looked slightly taken aback, but nodded peacefully.

FAREWELL FOR NOW, SUZY OF THE MILLERS. IF YOU EVER NEED ANYTHING ELSE YOU HAVE BUT TO ASK ME.

Suzy nodded, and ran over to her parents’ room to show them her new dog. She was pretty sure they couldn’t object to this pet.

[wulfgang]

A part 2,since this got some people interested.

Keep reading

[wulfgang]

Part 3, due to popular request. 

Keep reading

[drovie]

Hi I did more work on my dragon today. I”m really pleased with how she’s coming along. *dances happily in place*

[thaturchingirl]

Holy mother

[really-saraleee]

OMG this is gorgeous. So beautiful.

[dreamabyss]

@dravanian

[curlicuecal]

wow

[jellygummies]

Summer soother

[skarchomp]

It was an itsy-bitsy, teeny-weeny, Hypsibius dujardini

[meme-theft]

[krinkshaming-deactivated2017021]

[sincerely-sansistor-deactivated]

cuentosallaround:

bigwordsandsharpedges:

skypig357:

Lmao

modern art

Okay, at this point there has to be something wrong with me, right? I’ve watched this 20 times in the last half hour, I still don’t know what they are saying half the time, but it doesn’t seem to matter because i’ve been crying my eyes out laughing for the entire last half hour …

@avoidfilledwithcelluloid

[sagolii-sandcat]

WHAT IS THIS

[swedebeast]

WHAT IS THE SOURCE OF THIS

[na-vidya-na-avidya]

[pinkplasticpen]

  this pun is entirely worth breaking my tumblr silence for

FROMIDABLE

[winds-wanderer]

@copperbadge

[copperbadge]

IT’S EVEN BETTER IN FRENCH THAN IN ENGLISH